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Phoenix Lights

Historic · Rating B · Phoenix and surrounding areas, Arizona · 13 March 1997

On the night of 13 March 1997, people from the Nevada line through Phoenix to Tucson reported lights in the sky, in two waves that do not match each other. Around 8 p.m., witnesses…

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Shag Harbour UFO Incident

Historic · Rating B · Shag Harbour, Canada · 4 October 1967

Around 11:20 p.m. on 4 October 1967, Laurie Wickens, 17, and four friends, driving on Highway 3 through Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, watched a row of four lights descend toward the w…

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Travis Walton Incident

Historic · Rating B · Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona · 5 November 1975

On the evening of 5 November 1975, Travis Walton, 22, disappeared from a woodcutting crew in the Turkey Springs area of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests, near Heber, Arizona.…

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Cash-Landrum Incident

Historic · Rating B · Near Huffman, Texas · 29 December 1980

On the night of 29 December 1980, Betty Cash was driving Vickie Landrum and Landrum’s seven-year-old grandson, Colby, home to Dayton, Texas, after dinner in New Caney. On Farm to M…

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Falcon Lake Incident

Historic · Rating B · Manitoba, Canada · 20 May 1967

On the afternoon of 20 May 1967, Stefan Michalak of Winnipeg flagged down an RCMP cruiser on the highway at Falcon Beach, Manitoba. He told Constable G. A. Solotki that about noon,…

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Roswell Incident

Historic · Rating A · Roswell, New Mexico · 8 July 1947

On 8 July 1947, Roswell Army Air Field announced that the 509th Bomb Group had recovered a flying disc from a ranch northwest of town. The same afternoon, Eighth Air Force headquar…

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Flatwoods Monster

Historic · Rating C · Flatwoods, West Virginia · 12 September 1952

On the evening of 12 September 1952, boys in Flatwoods, Braxton County, West Virginia, saw a bright object cross the sky and thought it had come down on the Fisher farm. Kathleen M…

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Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter

Historic · Rating C · Near Kelly and Hopkinsville, Kentucky · 21 August 1955

Around 11 p.m. on 21 August 1955, two carloads of adults and children pulled up at the Hopkinsville police station. One car had Pennsylvania plates. They said they had been fightin…

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Betty and Barney Hill Encounter

Historic · Rating C · White Mountains, New Hampshire · 19 September 1961

On the night of 19–20 September 1961, Betty and Barney Hill of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, were driving home on U.S. Route 3 from a trip to Niagara Falls. South of Colebrook they wa…

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Pascagoula Encounter

Historic · Rating B · Pascagoula, Mississippi · 11 October 1973

On the night of 11 October 1973, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker told the Jackson County sheriff they had been taken from a Pascagoula River pier by three beings and examined ins…

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Allagash Abduction Claims

Historic · Rating C · Eagle Lake, Maine · 1 August 1976

In August 1976, four art students canoeing the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in Maine reported a strange bright light while night-fishing on Eagle Lake. Years later, under hypnotic…

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Bridgewater Triangle

Active · Rating C · Bridgewater area, Massachusetts · 10 May 1760

The Bridgewater Triangle is a region of southeastern Massachusetts associated with a wide range of reported unexplained phenomena, including UFO sightings, unusual animal encounter…